{"id":55828,"date":"2018-03-03T02:53:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T02:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55828"},"modified":"2018-03-03T02:53:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T02:53:34","slug":"to-modern-ears-its-hard-to-believe-that-race-is-an-invention-but-the-modern-framework-of-race-a-hierarchy-with-white-on-top-and-black-on-the-bottom-is-a-relatively-recent-fabrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55828","title":{"rendered":"To modern ears, it&#8217;s hard to believe that &#8220;race&#8221; is an invention. But the modern framework of race &#8212; a hierarchy with white on top and black on the bottom &#8212; is a relatively recent fabrication."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To modern ears, it&#8217;s hard to believe that &#8220;race&#8221; is an invention. But the modern framework of race &#8212; a hierarchy with white on top and black on the bottom &#8212; is a relatively recent fabrication. &#8220;Black people,&#8221; for example, weren&#8217;t invented until around 500 years ago by Europeans to justify slavery and their colonial conquest of much of the world, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unlv.edu\/people\/rainier-spencer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Rainier] Spencer<\/a>, the UNLV scholar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Blake, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are you racially fluid?<\/a>,\u201d <em>Cable News Network<\/em>, March 2, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/02\/us\/racial-fluidity\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/02\/us\/racial-fluidity\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To modern ears, it&#8217;s hard to believe that &#8220;race&#8221; is an invention. But the modern framework of race &#8212; a hierarchy with white on top and black on the bottom &#8212; is a relatively recent fabrication. &#8220;Black people,&#8221; for example, weren&#8217;t invented until around 500 years ago by Europeans to justify slavery and their colonial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9447,3142,3143,45],"class_list":["post-55828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-cable-news-network","tag-cnn","tag-john-blake","tag-rainier-spencer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55831,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55828\/revisions\/55831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}